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Jeopardy! recap for Thur., Dec. 25

Here are today’s Second Chance contestants:

  • Guy Branum, a writer and comedian from West Hollywood, California;
  • Michelle Tsai, a tutor originally from Honolulu, Hawaii; and
  • Melanie Hirsch, an attorney from Silver Spring, Maryland.

Jeopardy!

HISTORY ON TV // ON THE BOOKSHELF // FAST FOOD // GIVE ME A RING // THE MOVIES // HOMONYMBLY YOURS

DD1 – 600 – ON THE BOOKSHELF – Anthony Swofford’s experiences in the First Gulf War led to his memoir called this, also the nickname of a Marine (Melanie added 1,000.)

Scores at first break: Melanie 5,400, Michelle 2,000, Guy 4,200.

Scores entering DJ: Melanie 5,600, Michelle 4,800, Guy 6,000.

Double Jeopardy!

PEOPLE & PLACES // THE KAISER’S COLLEGE OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE // SCIENCE & NATURE // PLAYING THE NUMBERS // COMEDIANS ON TV // TOUGH 8-LETTER WORDS

DD2 – 1,600 – PLAYING THE NUMBERS – “A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy” was 9th on a list totaling this number of proposals in 1918 (From the lead, Michelle doubled to 12,800.)

DD3 – 1,200 – PEOPLE & PLACES – Outside of India Canada has one of the largest populations of followers of this religion founded by Guru Nanak (With a score of 16,400, Michelle added 3,000.)

Michelle already had the lead when she doubled on DD2, extended it on DD3 and kept a big margin into FJ at 24,600 vs. 8,000 for Guy and 6,000 for Melanie.

Final Jeopardy!

18TH CENTURY LIT – In this work, “the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide-and-seek in my hair”

Guy and Melanie were both correct and doubled up, while Michelle missed and dropped 5,400. So going into game two, it will be Michelle bringing over 19,200 vs. Guy with 16,000 and Melanie at 12,000.

Triple Stumper of the day: No one knew the disaster that was reported during a World Series game at Candlestick Park in 1989 was an earthquake.

Obscure reference dept.: The second category in DJ today was a play on the title of a radio show from the 1940s, “Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge”. Maybe 1% of the home viewers were mentally patting themselves on the back for knowing that.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is “Jarhead”? DD2 – What is 14? DD3 – What is Sikhism? FJ – What is “Gulliver’s Travels”?